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In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and settle it, once and for all At the 1967 Monterey pop festival, David Crosby of the Byrds treated the audience to his thoughts on the murder of JFK. “He was not killed by …
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A former Democrat-turned-Trump supporter from Knightstown, Indiana, Gayla Baer-Taylor’s blood pressure rose every time Facebook and Twitter fact-checked and restricted claims by President Donald Trump and other Republicans that the November election was rigged. A couple weeks ago, Facebook put a …
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New forms of terrorism rooted in conspiracy theories could emerge after the coronavirus pandemic, the EU’s terror chief has warned.Gilles de Kerchove, the EU counter-terrorism coordinator, said that while terrorists inspired by Isis and al-Qaeda remained the biggest security threat, a “major change …
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One ungainly paragraph delivered during a Wednesday interview on the “Breakfast Club” encapsulates just about all one needs to know about Barack Obama. “People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump,” Obama told a trio of black interviewers, “but there’s a lot of …
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TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – QAnon’s days as a solely US phenomenon are over. The conspiracy theory’s foothold in Japan – home to one of its most active networks outside the United States – demonstrates how the movement can be made palatable in a range of countries as it gains popularity from Europe to …
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Unless you’ve been on a silent retreat for the past year, you will have almost certainly heard the rumours – that the pandemic is an elaborate hoax, or that the virus was created as a Chinese weapon, or that dangerous elites are trying to kill off the elderly and to establish a new world order, or …
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The alliance between anti-vaxxers and QAnon followers is rapidly increasing as they continue their plight to spread massive amounts of disturbing misinformation amid the pandemic. One glaring example centers around one incident that occurred last week. Facebook opted to nix a massive …
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Conspiracy theories last thing we need A recent opinion piece put forth a creative comparison between The Three Musketeers, an 1844 French adventure novel, and America’s response to the current COVID pandemic. The novel, a swashbuckler full of sword-wielding heroes who fight for justice, is often …
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In a mansion in the Staffordshire Potteries once owned by a scourge of the Napoleonic navy lives a scourge of fake news. On Valentine’s Day, 1797, Admiral John Jervis defeated a fleet of French warships outnumbering him two to one. Nearly 225 years on, Lyric Jain has just returned to his family …
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A COMMUNITY nurse working at my GP local practice told me a horrific story. When giving infants their normal set of vaccinations she was surprised how many mums were refusing to have the injections because they had read on social media “that’s how children get the coronavirus.” Last weekend …
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